Robin Houston wrote:
If I understand you correctly, you need to add the comment
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
to the beginning of your tex file, to tell TeXShop that the source is UTF-8. Otherwise it assumes MacRoman.
I thought of that, trashed my auxiliary files and still get the same message from TeXShop that it was opened in MacOSRoman. I might have to switch to Skim... --gildas